remembered a sentence in the film.
When Tristin, played by Pete, was about to leave her to go far away, Susanna said to him: "I'll wait for you, forever." A few years later, the two met again. She has become the wife of Tristin’s brother Afred. He said: Forever turned to be too long. Chinese is more charming: it's always too far away.
The movie portrays a lot of emotions, and I just want to talk about Susanna's love, because I revisited this movie yesterday, and I really felt sorry for this character.
The Tristin brothers, the eldest brother Afred, and the third brother Samuel. Susanna was originally Samuel's fiancée, but when she followed him to the prairie, she was attracted by Tristin. When World War I broke out, Samuel insisted on joining the war. Powerless to stop him, Susanna fell on Tristin's shoulder and wept. The two stared at each other, feeling each other's attraction. Very Hollywood, if Samuel did not go to the battlefield, then this scene may be in estrus and end in reason, Susanna and him will be able to tie the knot for a hundred years. After all, the mutual affection between Susanna and Tristin, her heartbeat and yearning, has not yet become a knotty knot in the heart.
However, Samuel was entangled in barbed wire and died under the bullet of the German, right in front of Tristin. Justin left his brother's heart in an Indian way, and rushed into the German position to avenge him. After leaving the army, he chose to go to sea for a few months before returning to his familiar hometown. That kind of helpless pain and self-blame, but entangled him like a demon.
Tristin and Susanna met again, hugging and crying in front of Samuel's grave, and the previously forbearing feelings burst out without hindrance. Afred, who also loves Susanna, could not accept the sadness and humiliation, and left home in anger. After that, it was probably the most brilliant and happy day in Susanna's life. However, this kind of happiness is like walking a tightrope on a cliff, and may fall from high in the sky at any time. Samuel's death has always been a shadow that looms over the lives of the two. It is not mentioned, but it cannot be avoided.
A calf in the ranch was entangled with barbed wire, and Tristin rushed to help. The scene of the calf suffocating and dying while struggling must have deeply stung him, and the deepest nightmare in his heart was resurrected. The kind of loss of his brother and helpless pain tortured him, making him finally choose to go to a remote place to exile himself. . Some people say that he is a coward, while others say that he is "listening to his own inner voice", but this is actually a natural choice. Tristin is an arrogant and self-conscious person. He must hate this feeling of not being able to control his destiny, and therefore hate his own powerlessness. Staying in the familiar environment of the hometown, the lover beside me was my brother's fiancée, and all the old things follow. So he chose to leave, whether he was going to Africa or far away New Guinea, whether it was an adventure or a debauchery, he just wanted to do things he had never done before, go to an unfamiliar environment he had never arrived in, and use all the freshness and excitement to help him stay away from the past. , As if it can be reborn in this way.
He just wants to stay away from himself.
Susanna, all her sorrows originate from the past that belongs to Tristin, the past that he tried to forget to get rid of.
Tristin, who hadn’t heard from him for a long time, wrote a letter to Susanna. The letter said: "All we had is dead. As I am dead. Marry another."
Everything we had was dead.
Because I'm dead.
Marry someone else.
Susanna cried bitterly, and really soon married Tristin’s brother, Afred.
When I first watched this movie, I probably still had the arrogance of a young man in my heart. I felt that Susanna’s move was too sloppy. I didn’t wait for the day when the dust settled, and I didn’t ask him clearly, why? Just willing to give up waiting?
However, I am probably older now, not as aggressive as I was at the beginning, and I have seen too much of the lost and unwillingness in life. Not only did I understand Susanna's decision, but I also saw her helpless sense of fate after seeing her tragic feelings.
Susanna's parents died young, she is the one who has experienced too much loss. In fact, even when she was with Tristin, she was full of doubts about whether she could really own him. Tristin has never expressed his feelings in words like Afred or Samuel. Although the lovers will not doubt the sincerity of each other when they get along, they don't even have a trace of memory or comfort after leaving. Tristin said that maybe only for a few months, but after years of waiting, Susanna will definitely figure out the heart of her sweetheart, figure out her own weight in his heart, and measure her own value in his life. The only thing that supports her waiting is love. And her affectionate confession, she said that she loved him, and asked if he would stay if she was pregnant at this time, she couldn't keep Tristin's footsteps. Her pain not only came from the distance of her lover, but also her deepest love was insignificant and powerless in front of him.
This is similar to Tristin's feeling of losing her brother.
People are afraid of doubting themselves and denying themselves.
That letter, the letter that made me want to literally, said: As I am dead.
Someone translated it as if I was dead. I always feel that the Chinese tone is not precise enough, it is better to say "I am dead". Tristin didn't just say to Susanna, he thought I was dead. In his heart, during the years of self-exile, the Tristinian of the year was indeed gone, the Tristinian who had all the entanglements with the past is dead, and remains in the world.
Susanna didn't wait anymore, not because she had to live with someone else; instead, she thought she had lost Tristin forever, and she couldn't face her past self. Marrying someone else was actually saying goodbye to everything in the past.
This is the same as Tristin's departure from home, it's an escape. It's just that she chose the foreign land of the soul.
He returned to his hometown a few years later, somewhat tired, and the trauma of the old days finally healed with the passage of time. He still remembered Susanna and brought a gift for her. It is a little ironic to say that he wrote a letter asking Susanna to marry another person. Why should he expect to see her in his own home after a few years?
If he really banished himself to the end of the world, and never appeared in front of Susanna again, maybe she remembered that he was sometimes melancholy, but he would never have unforgettable pain. However, Tristin not only came back, but soon married the little girl next door Isabel.
Someone commented that Isabel has been waiting persistently for Tristin, she is the most determined, her wild personality is the most suitable for Tristin, and she has given him a peaceful and peaceful life.
I cannot agree with this view.
Falling in love requires not only courage, but also some luck.
Little Isabel's ability to become Tristin's wife is largely due to her youth. She didn't really wait for Justin, but grew up just in time when he returned. She did not intervene in the painful memories of Tristin. She did not need to comfort Tristin, who was crying and awakened by nightmares in the night like Susanna. Her simplicity and beauty originated from the nirvana that Tristin had already taken away from that period of suffering and struggle. The journey is left to Susanna.
So for the combination of these two people, I feel resentful for Susanna.
A young girl, waiting for a man from the age of fourteen to nineteen, can only be regarded as the persistence of the first love, full of fantasy and hope; this is a kind of waiting without much cost.
And a woman, from her twenties to her thirties, has all the good things broken, but she can only see sadness and despair; her waiting and giving is to use the happiness of her life as a bet.
Little Isabel is just lucky to meet Tristin who has already returned. No matter how unruly the prodigal son, after experiencing ups and downs, he will start to yearn for the warmth and peace of the family.
What tormented Susanna the most was to see Tristin's family of four at the market. He put his son on his shoulders and said he was named Samuel. When Susanna and Tristin fell in love, they once told him that if you give birth to a boy, you will be named after Samuel.
At this time, she could only cry in tears and said to the child: "This is really a good name."
All the things she had longed for, he, a child named Samuel, really appeared before her eyes at this time, but But she was interpreted by others, her dreams and deepest hopes she wanted to achieve the most.
When the two met for the last time, Susanna said with tears: "Sometimes I still dream, I'm the mother of your children."--Sometimes I still dream that I am the mother of your children.
I have always thought that this kind of sorrow is an unspeakable pain,
"Have you ever experienced that kind of sorrow, looking at your beloved one from a distance, but can't speak his name. See if he leaves his embrace and kisses Other women, seeing that others have the happiness that should belong to you, he fulfilled the promises made to you for her. And you, nothing can be done, nothing can be changed. "
All the beautiful and dreams of the past, After all, it's just passing by.
If the saddest song I have ever heard, it should include a Cantonese song sung by Lin Yilian, which is also a Cantonese song in the 90s. The scene seems to be a woman reuniting her lover and his child on the bus. The song sings:
he is all about your
smile and your eyes like foot
parting you then meet with you
in which the centuries seem to
know your lovely baby
one day I write to tell you the story
and the meaning of them
. How are you
today is your daddy
I sincerely wish you
my heart is
crying because of you
A good pair of lovers cry
worse I would row a total of
helpless and eventually to be divided
cry
crying children around
can be seen that a passer-
day has almost become his mother,
this is Susanna The idea of it, we can see that a passer-by, a Tian has almost changed his mother. She must be extremely remorseful, and only when she counts the mistakes she has made, she will pass by the person she loves most; but she really did nothing wrong, but everything has become an irreversible foregone conclusion.
After little Isabel was killed by the police, Susanna cried and said that she had cursed her to die. I don't think Susanna is hateful at all. She loves someone in such a desperate way. She comforts him when he is the most painful, is abandoned by him when he loves the most, and disrupts her peaceful life when she thinks she has forgotten him.
Tristin may not be suitable for being a husband. However, after falling in love with such a man, how can she love others afterwards?
To describe love with an unforgettable heart, I don't know whether it emphasizes the depth of love or the pain of love.
For Susanna, who finally committed suicide, love hurts more than death.
As for whether Tristin loves Susanna, there is no doubt. However, that kind of love and Susanna's love for him like life, obviously cannot be compared.
At the beginning of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" produced in 2008 and starring Brad Pitt, a familiar face appeared. Julia Ormond, who played Susanna, played Benjamin's daughter. Although I would love to see them appear as a couple again, this time, she finally became the woman he would love and never leave.
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